it's always interesting to me when people bring logic (and wisely too) to the equation about viability. is it viable that we have all these polluting cars on the road adding to the climate problem? no. but they exist. life happens anyway, i love the way we want our investment back before we go in, i guess it's why we don't worry about the climate so much because we are told it's not gonna be a problem for a 100 years from now, most people say 'i'm gonna be dead, so it does'nt matter' - the truth is, life costs from the moment we are born! :)

horses for courses, we all have our own ways of looking at things. the initial plan for any electric car or van (the nv-e200 from nissan would be an option and much cheaper) would be a solar carport. but i was just 'asking for a friend' in case of making an interesting storytelling vlog from power from the sun.

the 480w was purely from having access to say 2 x 240 and 'my friend' does'nt want want to fully charge it. just wanted to consider it from the perspective of boondocking, could i have a mini trailer with an array, could the electronics work today with an inverter, could it give it a drip feed if it was sitting somewhere offgrid. .. just ideas. . ;)

my life has never been about practical and it's certainly will never be put in a viablity box ;)